I too am at peace. This is a very scary and exciting time we live in. We are blessed to be able to see God's word unfold on a daily basis in regards to the end times.

With all the political upheaval, wars, famines, weird natural disasters, it is so good to know why these things are happening and to know that we are loved and ultimately protected from anything that happens here on earth. I could die in an earthquake or car wreck tomorrow but I know exactly who will have their arms out waiting for me. I don't know how folks who don't have this assurance can even function.

I just don't understand how these people think this era is any worse than past eras. Surely the thirties were far more "end timey" than now???? Floods (millions dead) and war in China, Italian and Japanese aggression, the rise of Hitler, the Great Depression etc. etc. Read a history book fundie!

"I too am at peace. This is a very scary and exciting time we live in."

You realize these two statements are contradictory, don't you?

"We are blessed to be able to see God's word unfold on a daily basis in regards to the end times."

Yeah, right. It's been the "End Times" for 2,000 years.

"With all the political upheaval, wars, famines, weird natural disasters, it is so good to know why these things are happening and to know that we are loved and ultimately protected from anything that happens here on earth."

Right. Of course you're protected. Must be nice to be convinced that your god thinks so highly of you as to disallow anything bad to happen to you. Delusional, but nice.

"I could die in an earthquake or car wreck tomorrow but I know exactly who will have their arms out waiting for me."

The coroner?

"I don't know how folks who don't have this assurance can even function."

You have no assurance. You have stories, fables and empty promises made by men in the name of a god they can't show even exists.

We function because, unlike you, we realize that natural disasters have been happening like this since the dawn of time, and nutbags like you have always claimed they were signs of the apocalypse. Anyone who says that they find events where thousands have died, and many more suffered, 'comforting' needs the taste slapped outta their mouth.

I don't know how folks who don't have this assurance can even function.

By actually setting out to enjoy life and avoid death, rather than discounting life and hoping for death. I can assure you that I am at least as horrified at your blissfully rushing to meet your own nonexistence as you are at my rejection of your ludicrous, unproven notions of a heavenly existence after death.